There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
AGNES MARTINTo progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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